Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name-Carole Landis-and got a job as a hula dancer in a cheap nightclub. She began the kind of swift and brutal education a boxer gets in the ring. She sang with a dance band. When she had saved $100 she went to Hollywood to court the cold-eyed janizaries of the motion-picture business...
Last week most Western observers seemed to be muffing that essential point. If the anti-Communist world failed to understand the Tito crisis, it would pass up a Kremlin-sent opportunity for a victory in the Cold War-a war which, for the West, consists of one-third military preparedness, one-third economic recovery, and one-third political action that has to begin with a knowledge of what the Communist parties are all about...
...weather had been wet and cold, the political news was chilling, and the price of wine had risen. Parisians last week warmed up to crime news. The sensational Paris-Presse reported that its circulation had risen from...
...soldiers on Orizaba kept Mexican photographers from taking pictures of the corpses. All through the night the Mexican press was kept sitting, cold, hungry and idle. The gringos gave them no help, lent them not a blanket, gave them not a sandwich nor a cup of coffee...
...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...